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Songfile (lyrics.ch) Trails Off

Posted by timothy on from the day-the-music-died dept.

dave256 writes: "I was recently wandering about looking for some lyrics and CD track listings, and going to my good old standby, lyrics.ch (and summarily suffering through the redirection to songfile), I noticed a notice:'On September 30, 2001, the International Lyrics Server website will be closed and all lyrics will be removed from the Songfile web site. Thank you for your support, and we appreciate your past patronage. Please direct any questions or inquiries regarding this change to lyrics@harryfox.com.' Who was this masked harryfox.com? Boy was I (not) surprised. I for one will miss the old beast." The lyrics.ch site has survived some tough times before, so perhaps this isn't really its end.

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  1. hey you.. get on with your life by funky49 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You have a right to dwell in the past, but please do not inflict this insanity on others.

    It's not Tuesday morning anymore. It's not Tuesday afternoon anymore. Thank God its not Thursday because I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

    steve

    --
    --- rapper/producer/bachelorette party stripper
  2. Re:Let me get this straight... by F452 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes. It was an awful horrible thing that happened in New York and Washington.

    So: When will it be ok to talk about ordinary day-to-day things?

  3. Re:Let me get this straight... by funky49 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    According to some people.. never. Let's lament about death forever and never ever have fun or good times again!

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    --- rapper/producer/bachelorette party stripper
  4. Re:Let me get this straight... by F452 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry. I don't read every comment in every story and this is the first time I've come across this post. I didn't know. Please forgive my moronity.

  5. Don't let by Gonoff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the scumbags change what we do!
    If the terrorists leaders that commited those crimes on 11 September find out that they are the only topic of conversation on the internet, it will make them feel pleased.
    Do everything you did before, or they have changed our lives for the worse. Think about music, software, freedom, s*x, movies and anything that makes you happy. There are 6,000 casualties in the WTC. You are not one so make sure that you NEVER give in to the filth that caused them!

    --
    I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
  6. Re:Trolls by codeforprofit2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, it is stealing so whats wrong with saying that?

  7. Oh, and by the way... by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What IS it with music stores and blaring music, anyway? I go the the malls and the CD shops always have something blasting away, and if I had a song in mind I'll probably have it blasted rightout of my head by whatever they're listening to (which I have about a 0.0000001% chance of buying because it's usually something awful), always seemed to me that blasting customers with music was counterproductive. Maybe why I by CD's at the Book/Music store. :)

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  8. Re:Trolls by codeforprofit2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would dislike it because I have to work another two years to buy a new one.

    Same thing here.

    I certainyl don't think the copyright holders dislike that you get something for free, they dislike that you erade THEIR income.

  9. Re:Trolls by guhknew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who says that by downloading the lyrics you didn't already buy the CD?

  10. Re:Trolls by martyn+s · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm not saying it's a legitimate argument or not, but have you considered the possibility the "THEIR income" is money that they didn't deserve. When incomes are being protected by legal measures, we should consider whether those legal measures are valid. In Sodom, as the story goes, if someone punched you hard enough to make you bleed, you'd have to pay him for the service of bloodletting. Sure, it's an extreme example, but you should be aware that what we have arbitrary measures (not natural, unregulated) deciding who pays whom for what, then it's not so simple as saying that he is stealing THEIR income. Basically he is arguing against the law which makes them get anything at all for their lyrics (I can't even imagine how).



    And just because anyone can publish the lyrics does not mean that anyone can perform them. It just seems very bizarre to think that you can't publish lyrics.